Tim Donnelly

Brooklyn

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Co-founder of @TheNY_Groove. Bylines also in: @nypost @curbed @streetsblog @eater @vice; co-host of @thevocabaret; lifetime head of the summer bureau.

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UNC basketball guard Ian Jackson enters transfer portal

2 weeks ago | wralsportsfan.com | Tim Donnelly |Mark Bergin

Tim Donnelly and Dennis Cox discuss UNC basketball guard Ian Jackson entering the transfer portal, and what this means for head coach Hubert Davis. Ian Jackson goes into the transfer portal from UNC as of earlier today, according to 247 Sports. This is, um, I can't say unexpected, right?
How to fight a casino in Coney Island

Jan 9, 2025 | nygroove.nyc | Tim Donnelly

A company that owns several large pieces of prime real estate in Coney Island has been promising to “revitalize” the People’s Playground since the second Bloomberg administration, but its biggest swing in years was a crab restaurant opening in one of its buildings on Stillwell Avenue. Now, it says it has a new answer: a casino that would dominate the skyline and remake the DNA of the People’s Playground.
Everything to know about City of Yes if you haven’t been paying attention

Nov 21, 2024 | nygroove.nyc | Virginia Smith |Tim Donnelly

If you haven’t locked in on what City of Yes is or why it’s so important — what, you’ve been overwhelmed and busy keeping track of other political news? — today is the day to learn. A would-be policy cornerstone of the Adams administration, City of Yes has the potential to create thousands of badly-needed new housing units every year, mainly through slashing assorted red tape that tends to stand in the way of their construction.
Hart Island's mass grave is now open for visitors, but is the city burying its history?

Oct 10, 2024 | nygroove.nyc | Tim Donnelly

Last week I had the chance to visit one of the world’s largest public burial grounds, making the macabre, island-hopping pilgrimage to Hart Island, the potter’s field where an estimated one million New Yorkers are buried. Since then, I’ve learned there’s much more to the island that the recently-opened public tours are leaving out.
After 14 years, a long-running comedy tradition is ending

Sep 12, 2024 | nygroove.nyc | Tim Donnelly

It’s curtains for one of the city’s longest-running and most popular comedy show slots. This week, Brooklyn’s Littlefield venue announced that its Monday night standup show Butterboy is coming to an end after seven years.
How to handle getting rat f*cked on Coney Island

Sep 11, 2024 | nygroove.nyc | Tim Donnelly

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So you want to build a fish pond in New York City

Aug 22, 2024 | nygroove.nyc | Tim Donnelly

Have you ever been walking around the city and thinking to yourself, for no particular reason: boy, I wish there were more fish ponds everywhere? How nice this might be if you could just see fish ponds every day, like some sort of Miyazaki fantasy played out in stunningly rendered colors against the backdrop of our concrete city, to brighten your day! It’s not as crazy as it may sound.
'I know this person:' Sydney Duncan on how to do a Kamala Harris impression

Aug 8, 2024 | nygroove.nyc | Tim Donnelly

kamal harris 9 min Sydney Duncan was entering rehearsal for a UCB show when she got the news that Joe Biden was dropping out of the presidential race. Her first reaction was “I hope he’s OK” — the impressions of Vice President Kamala Harris that were all over Duncan’s Instagram and TikTok accounts were heavy on the “I can’t wait for Joe to die” gags. “I know I always joke, but, you know, I want everyone safe and sound and all that,” she told The Groove.
'The rest of the city is pissed off with you': How activists stay hopeful in cynical times

Jun 13, 2024 | nygroove.nyc | Tim Donnelly

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s abrupt U-turn on congestion pricing last week was so jarring for both its sheer cowardice and its capitulation to the idea that better things are not, in fact, possible when a few suburban voters might be inconvenienced. But beyond all that, the whole thing is baffling because — even in the halls of Albany, where good ideas go to be gutted by special interests and secret cabals still run the show — it’s still just not how politics is supposed to work.
July 13: We're vibe checking with New York Metro Weather

Jun 13, 2024 | nygroove.nyc | Tim Donnelly

NYG events 5 min Everyone knows the weather app on your phone sucks these days: its algorithm-based forecasts are often no match for our rapidly changing, subtropical climate. That's where New York Metro Weather comes in: the viral Twitter and Instagram-based forecaster has been giving New Yorkers plain-English reports of the day's weather forecast, along with a quippy "vibe" rating for each day, for almost a decade now.